Blissfield man guilty in child porn case

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By Daily Telegram staff

The Daily Telegram - Adrian, MI

By Daily Telegram staff

Posted Jun. 28, 2013 at 12:00 PM

By Daily Telegram staff
Posted Jun. 28, 2013 at 12:00 PM

ADRIAN

A 31-year-old Blissfield man admitted possessing pornographic images of children on a computer disc that police reported finding at his home on Oct. 12 during a plea hearing Wednesday in Lenawee County Circuit Court.

Jeffrey Alan Voss pleaded guilty to one of 11 counts of possession of child sexually abusive material. The remaining 10 counts and 11 counts of using a computer to commit a crime are to be dismissed at sentencing on Aug. 2.

Voss was charged in April after Blissfield police seized several computers and the disc in a search of his home on Oct. 12. A search warrant was based on allegations he had taken improper photographs of someone.

No such photos were discovered, but police reported finding a disc with pornographic images of unidentified children.

Voss did not say where the disc came from, but defense attorney Robert Jameson said Voss did not download the photographs from the Internet or take the pictures himself.

“He knew that the disc was there,” Jameson said. He also admitted having viewed the photographs on a computer at his home.

Jameson said Michigan State Police are still analyzing the evidence and he believes it will be confirmed the photographs were not installed on the disc by any of the computers taken from Voss.

Judge Margaret M.S. Noe granted a motion by Jameson to reduce bond for Voss to personal recognizance on condition he have no computers or Internet devices and have no contact with minor children. He had been held in jail in lieu of a $220,000 bond the past two months.